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Neofeud

A Dystopic Cyberpunk Adventure Game

What is Neofeud about?

2033 - We create AI. Sentient robots arrive, but not as our Terminator overlords or our Singularity saviors -- conscious machines are humanity's unwanted bastard children. A few are geniuses who design flying cars, beat cancer, invent teleportation, but millions of defective prototypes roll out of factories -- mentally challenged, motivationally-challenged, criminally-inclined. Legally conscious, but unhirable, these "Defectives" are shuffled through public housing and welfare assistance, straining the already overburdened back of the meager social safety net. The robots who don't end up in prison are dumped, as a last resort, into a massive landfill known as "The Pile".

Humans engage in perfection of their species -- or at least the powerful and well-connected -- genetically engineering children with human and animal DNA. The failed eugenics experiment "Frankenpeople" are discarded into "The Pile" as well. The new dynasties, 'Neofeudal Lords', live in towering neon glass castles, shuttle around in pristine nanotech-enabled pods, minds and bodies full of cyberware, spending most of their time taking selfies and "optimizing their monetization schemes". A race of supermen concerned only with their own status, their prestige, their success. Where machines have become all too flawed and human, people have become flawless, perfect, cold machines.

Karl Carbon is an ex-cop, dishonorably discharged from Coastlandia PD for disobeying an order to shoot an unarmed sentient humanoid. Karl is exiled to "The Pile" as a lowly social worker. There he counsels gangbanging foster-kid robots and confiscates chimera-children from deadbeat half-wolf parents. Till one day a case goes horribly sideways and and Karl is drawn into a sordid conspiracy that could threaten the strained fabric of Human-Robot-Hybrid civilization -- or save it.

Delve deeper into the world of Neofeud

The background world of Neofeud has been thoroughly fleshed out not only visually but also in terms of world building. Stories set in the world of Neofeud have in fact been published in the science fiction and fantasy magazine Mythaxis! Check them out for a taste of the style and vision of Neofeud.

A robot slumdog gets dumped into the prison-industrial complex on a bogus charge, and jailbreaks out of the supermax. Will he become an even bigger robo-criminal, or join civilized human society? Or is that even possible?

(caution: extreme language)

The Cospauper "In a neofeudal 2030 of 1%-er princesses and peasants, a cosplayer goes from Cinderella rags to Kardashian riches."